Petzl

At Up and Under in Cardiff (UK), a comprehensive selection of Petzl products is available, catering to both climbers and professionals working at height. Known for their durability and reliability, Petzl offers a wide range of equipment, including karabiners, harnesses, rucksacks, ropes, helmets, belay devices, rescue gear, and headlamps, all designed to meet the demands of both recreational and professional users.
Petzl, a family-run business based in the French Alps, has grown to be Europe's leading manufacturer of personal protective equipment for those working or adventuring in challenging environments. For 50 years, Petzl has been driven by four core values: maintaining family ownership, fostering innovation, achieving industrial excellence with a focus on zero defects, and engaging with communities worldwide to uphold the highest safety standards.
Petzl Canyon Guide
The Petzl Canyon Guide is a comfortable, ergonomic harness with an integrated protective seat for canyoning. The gated ventral attachment point allows gear to be easily connected (such as a lanyard, rope clamp, or cutaway sling). The gear loops and secondary loops make it easy to carry gear in a variety of situations (such as while progressing, organizing packs, or during rescue). Durable and interchangeable, the seat effectively protects your wetsuit and harness webbing from abrasion.
Petzl Protective Seat for Canyon Harness
The Petzl Protective Seat for Canyon Harnesses has been designed for use with the Petzl Canyon Club and Canyon Guide harnesses. It will help effectively protect your wetsuit and harness webbing from any abrasion and comes in three different colours, making it easy to personalise equipment and differentiate groups. It is highly durable and interchangeable should you need to replace it.
Petzl Meteora
The Petzl Meteora is lightweight women's helmet that's suitable for climbing, mountaineering and ski touring. It features a headband that's been adapted to be ponytail compatible and provides efficient protection in a lightweight and compact design. It's also specifically designed to be worn with ski goggles and is CE certified for ski touring. The Meteora's large vents provide excellent ventilation and airflow for high intensity activities and multi-season use.
Petzl Top
The Petzl Top is a chest harness that transforms the Avao Sit, Avao Sit Fast, Falcon, Falcon Mountain and Sequoia SRT seat harnesses into fall arrest harnesses. The foam shoulder straps are widely spaced to reduce neck chafing. When the waistbelt is loaded, they help distribute the load over the shoulders. They also have a system for stowing the fall-arrest lanyard connectors and keeping them within reach.
Petzl Top Croll
The Petzl Top Croll Chest Harness is a comfortable, efficient upgrade for transforming your Petzl sit harness into a full-body rope access system. With an integrated Croll L ventral rope clamp, wide padded shoulder straps, and intuitive buckle adjustments, it offers both performance and comfort for vertical access work, rope ascents, and fall-arrest setups.
Petzl Avao Bod
The Petzl Avao Bod is a Full Body Harness that is designed for greater comfort in all situations and ideal for Working at Height. The X-shaped dorsal construction wraps to reduce pressure points during prolonged suspension. The harness also facilitates carrying and organization of tools with multiple equipment loops and retainers for attaching Caritool tool holders and Toolbag tool-holder pouches.
Petzl Bucket 15
The Petzl Bucket 15 is a small-capacity, freestanding rope bag that allows you to store up to 45 metres of 11mm diameter rope. This s a simple but durable bag that remains upright and keeps its shape, even when empty. It also has an exterior pocket to store personal items and a marking area to quickly identify the contents of the bag. Its construction of TPU tarp material allows regular to intensive use. Available in three colors: yellow, red, and black.
Petzl Attache
The Petzl Attache is a lightweight and compact, pear-shaped karabiner with as screw gate opening. It has multiple uses for belaying, such as connecting a belay system to a harness and belaying with a Munter hitch. It has a H-cross section to reduce weight, as well as the keylock system to avoid the karabiner snagging during manoeuvres.
Petzl Duffel
The Petzl Duffel is a convenient and ergonomic duffel bag that has been designed to be carried in multiple different ways. It features removable padded back and shoulder straps for comfort when worn as a backpack, and a large transparent area allows for quick and easy identification of the bags contents. Its large opening provides easy-access to equipment and there are inner pockets for the storage of your shoes and helmet. The bag itself has been constructed from a high-strength TPU tarp material for intensive use.
Petzl Vizir
The Petzl Vizir is a scratch and fog resistant eye shield for attachment to the Petzl Vertex and Strato range of helmets. In ‘work’ position it covers the eyes, while in the ‘storage' position it is raised over the helmet out of the way.
Petzl Strato Vent Hi-Viz
The Petzl Strato Vent (Hi-Viz) is and incredibly comfortable and lightweight helmet with ventilation holes that will allow airflow through the helmet. With its potential for integration of a Petzl headlamp, hearing protection and multiple accessories. It is an entirely modular helmet, thus responding to the specific additional needs of professionals. The high visibility version features a fluorescent outer shell with phosphorescent clips and reflective bands.
Petzl Strato Vent
The Petzl Strato Vent is and incredibly comfortable and lightweight helmet with ventilation holes that will allow airflow through the helmet. With its potential for integration of a Petzl headlamp, hearing protection, and multiple accessories, it is an entirely modular helmet, thus responding to the specific additional needs of professionals.
Petzl Sm'D
The Petzl Sm'D represents a D-shaped carabiner with a locking mechanism, known for its lightweight and compact design. It finds utility across various scenarios, offering ease of handling even with gloves, and comes in two different locking system variations.
Petzl Vulcan D
The Petzl Vulcan D is a high grade, D shaped karabiner for professional work. Designed for use in difficult environments, this karabiner is made from high quality steel and is ideal for setting multiple anchors.
Petzl Rollclip Z
The Petzl Rollclip Z is a carabiner with an integrated pulley for reducing friction and redirecting rope. The Z specific model has a gate which opens on the non-pulley side of the carabiner, to allow for easier installation onto anchors and other devices.
Petzl Rollclip A
The Petzl Rollclip A is a carabiner with an integrated pulley to reduce friction and redirect the rope. With the A version of the Rollclip the gate opening is on the pulley side to facilitate installation of the rope when the pulley is fixed to the anchor or device.
Petzl Oxan
The Oxan is Petzl's high quality steel oval karabiner with a keylock gate closure, this is the steel karabiner of choice for demanding conditions. Petzl’s Keylock means less snagging, while the red indicator on the screw lock provides a visual warning if the gate is not locked.
Petzl Eashook Open
The Petzl Eashook Open carabiner has a gated attachment point for lanyards or slings, making it possible to reuse the connector when the lanyard is damaged.
Petzl William
The Petzl William is a large-capacity aluminium karabiner designed for belaying, abseiling, and anchoring multiple ropes or slings. Its pear-shaped design allows smooth handling and easy connection of multiple items, while the H-shaped cross-section ensures strength without unnecessary weight. Available in 3 locking options, it offers versatility for rope access, climbing, and rescue applications. The Keylock nose prevents snagging, and the Captiv bar keeps the karabiner properly oriented on the harness. Lightweight, robust, and practical, the William is a trusted choice for professional and recreational users alike.
Petzl Toolbag 6
The Petzl Toolbag 6 is a durable tool pouch that provides enough space for a large number of tools and is strong enough to be used on a daily basis without any worry about wear. It features an easy-to-use opening and closure system that can be used with just one hand. There's also the option to connect the bag to your harness, to reduce bulk and improve the accessibility of the pouch.
Petzl Am'D
The Petzl Am'D karabiner is great for most uses and thanks to its D-shape it's one of the strongest and lightest locking carabiners out there. The 'D-shape' has the highest strength-to-weight ratio of all karabiner designs. The shape and size of the AM'D is great for most uses, such as connecting a belay device to your harness or as a connector at the end of a lanyard. The D-shape makes it one of the strongest and lightest locking carabiners Petzl makes.
Petzl Newton Easy Fit
The Petzl Newton (Easy Fit) is a comfortable and ergonomic fall arrest harness that can be put on quickly when it needs to be used. It has padded shoulder straps and Fast LT buckles on the leg loops, allowing the harness to be donned with both feet still on the ground and without loss of adjustment.
Petzl Vertex Vent
The Petzl Vertex Vent has the same excellent features as the standard Vertex but with adjustable ventilation around the sides of the head.
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Petzl Pantin Catch
The Petzl Pantin Catch is a catch for the Pantin foot ascender, it helps to keep the rope in the device during rope ascents. It's available for both the right and left foot versions.
Petzl Vertex
The Petzl Vertex helmet uses Centerfit and Flip & fit to keep the helmet adjustable and comfortable for working at height and on the ground. The six point suspension system conforms to the wearers head, while the Centrefit adjustment system allows you to centralise the helmet at the front and back. Flip & fit allows for a comfortable adjustment of the rear support on the helmet, which can fold into the helmet for easy storage and transport purposes.
Petzl Strato
The Petzl Strato is a very lightweight and comfortable helmet. The adjustable-strength chinstrap makes it ideal for both work at height and on the ground. The unventilated outer shell protects against electrical hazards, molten metal splash and flames. With its potential for integration of a Petzl headlamp, hearing protection, and multiple accessories, it is an entirely modular helmet, thus meeting the specific additional needs of professionals.
Petzl Croll
Designed for rope ascents, the Petzl Croll ventral rope clamp is simple to use, thanks to its pinch opening system, which is totally integrated in the clamp to avoid any involuntary snagging. The attachment holes ensure efficient positioning during ascents. It is available in two versions to adapt to different rope diameters.
Petzl Ascension
The Petzl Ascension is a handled rope clamp designed for smooth and efficient rope ascents. Its ergonomic over-moulded grip delivers comfort and power when pulling with one or two hands, even while wearing gloves. A self-cleaning cam ensures reliable performance on dirty or frozen ropes. Ideal for climbing, caving, and access work, the Ascension is a trusted choice for professionals and serious climbers.
Petzl Pantin
The Petzl Pantin is a rope clamp that attaches to your footwear to aid in ascending ropes. The foot ascender can be used in conjunction with other rated clamps and ascenders to make climbing a rope quicker and more energy efficient.
Petzl Connexion Fixe
The Petzl Connexion Fixe is a durable anchor strap with two forged steel attachment points. It offers several configurations for setting up an anchorage directly on an anchor or around a suitable structure. It is available in three lengths (100, 150 and 200 cm).
Petzl Rescue
The Petzl Rescue pulley is very strong and efficient making it ideal for rescue, hauling heavy loads and intensive use. The Rescue pulley has a large diameter sheave mounted on sealed ball bearings which provides excellent efficiency. The Rescue pulley accepts up to three carabiners at once to facilitate rope manoeuvres.